Improvement in shaping and arranging tobacco for packing



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Shaping and Arranging Tobacco for Packing.

No.4135,897. Patented Feb.1s,1a7.

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UNITED STATES ATENT @Erica JOHN K. EARIOKSON AND JACOB R. HARRIS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

IMPROIEMENT IN SHAPING AND ARRANGING TOBACCO FOR PACKlNQ.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, J oHN K. EARrcKsoN and JACOB R. HARRIs, both of the city of St.

Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented anew anduseful Improvement in Shaping and Arranging Tobacco for Packing, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

Nature cmd vObjects of the Innen-tion.

The invention relates to the conformation of bunches of tobacco into plugs or cakes, and

their subsequent arrangement in packing in drums. The object of the invention is to produce a superior form of plug or cake chewing-tobacco, and so pack it that a single cake can be removed without disturbing the mass.

. Description of the Accompany/ing mwing.

Figure 1 is a view of the rollor bunch of tobacco. Fig. 2 is the same bent and twisted preparatory to pressing. Fig. 3 is a section showing the arrangement of the rolls in a press. Fig. 4 is the roll when pressed into a cake, Figs.5 and 6 exhibit the arrangements of the cake, Fig. 4, in the drum.

General Description.

i The tobacco is iirst made into the roll, Fig. 1, which consists of a filler and wrapper formed into the elongated ellipticalv shape shown; the ends are then bent together and twisted into the form of bunch shown at Fig. 2. These rolls are then subjectedto a preliminary pressure, by which the joints or edges of the wrapper are broken, and the air expelled from the bunch, and the bunch, Fig. 2, is reduced to the form of the cake, Fig. 4.

A number of the cakes-fourbein g used in the o Spccilication forming part of Letters Patent No. l35,897, dat-cd February 18, 1873.

ited, this operation being repeated until the drum is filled; but, as the number of cakes necessary to make up the weightof tobacco the drum is to contain cannot be placed in the drum when they have been subjected only to "the pressure aforesaid, a rim',.as in said ape plication described, is placed upon thedrum and lled with cakes anranged as above set forth; or, if desired, the cakes, Fig. 4, may be arranged in the drum so'that each succeeding one properly overlaps and has its smaller end placed above the preceding cake, the larger ends being on the circumference, the smaller atthe center. The tobacco is now subjected to the packing-pressure 4until all the cakes are forced into the caddy, when it may be headed up. y

By this arrangement the cakes are packed with their smaller ends overlapping, so that each may be removed by taking up its smaller end vand raising the cake, which does not disturb the other in the caddy; also, owing to the peculiar structure of the roll, Figs. 1 and 2, the edges may be broken and the air expelled from the bunch without disfiguring the same; and this also prevents the ordinary danger of molding from conlined air, and facilitates the operation of packinglby allowing it to escape.

Claims.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, Jthe cake or plug of tobacco, Fig. 4, when pressed substantially as herein described.

2. The arrangement of the cakes, Figs. 5 and 6, in the drum, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoingimprovement in the method of packing tobacc, as above described, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 7th day of J anuary, 1873.

JOHN K. EARIGKSON. JACOB R. HARRIS. l Witnesses:

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